Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

This year’s theme was Management: The Human Dimension. Today, businesses are in permanent crisis mode. Management has maybe become too machine smitten. Many managers mix up formulating a strategy and developing a plan. Philip Kotler, Professor, Kellogg School of Management. ? Linda Hill, Harvard Business School. ?

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Drucker Globalization Ulrich Mintzberg 287

The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

McGill University management professor and author, Henry Mintzberg said, “an organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force.” It’s a non-renewable energy crisis. Living on Purpose.

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Mintzberg Pharmaceuticals Energy McKinsey 111

Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

New managers , or those aspiring to manage a team, often are looking for a playbook to help them get started. And, let’s face it, seasoned managers often need a refresher on some of the basics. How I wish we had an entire day to talk about management and leadership. 4 Things Great Managers Do. 2) Energize.

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Management Diversity Performance Review Review 107

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 23, 2023

In A Tale of Two Managers: Command versus Commitment , I contrasted two leaders, Denise and Joel. Denise balances management and leadership very effectively. Joel is out of balance with a techno-management approach. She sees people as adults who are generally self-managing. They’re creating an energy crisis.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 5, 2010

To get our discussion going, our group reviewed some material on the various political games that get played in organizations based on work by Henry Mintzberg (author Managers Not MBA’s and Prof at McGill University). Whether you’re aware of it or not. Frankly, I never realized there were so many different games. Happy leading!

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Politics Organization Mintzberg Loyalty 53

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down? Leading scholars, best-selling authors, deans.

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Mintzberg Education Long-term Class 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

According to McGill’s Henry Mintzberg , it’s just another influencing process along with norms, formal authority and expertise. Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts.

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